Culinary herbs for short-season gardeners
Record details
- ISBN: 9780152049683
- ISBN: 0152049681
- ISBN: 9780878424535 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0878424539 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
x, 182 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: Mountain Press ed.
- Publisher: Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Toronto : Ismant Peony Press, c2001. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-177) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: How to use this book -- Interpreting a plant hardiness zone map: Making the most of the short growing season: Pick the best location for light and warmth -- Full sun versus full sun/partial shade -- Provide wind protection and cold air drainage -- Build raised beds for warmth and drainage -- Choose the right species -- Understanding soil pH levels -- Container herbs -- Start seedlings indoors -- Use season extenders -- Greenhouses -- Cold frames -- Hot beds -- Floating row covers, cloches, and water jackets -- Warm the soil with plastic film -- Growing and caring for your herbs: Seeding indoors -- Last spring frost date -- Seeding containers -- Soil for your seeds and seedlings -- Sowing your seeds -- Lighting needs -- Watering and thinning -- Transplanting indoors -- Hardening off -- Transplanting outdoors -- Seeding outdoors -- Preparing for winter -- First fall frost date -- Providing frost protection -- Mulching and wrapping perennials for winter survival -- Culinary herb compendium: Agrimony -- Angelica -- Balm, lemon -- Basil, sweet -- Bergamot -- Borage -- Caraway -- Catnip -- Chamomile, German and Roman -- Chervil -- Chives and garlic chives -- Cicely, sweet -- Coriander -- Cress, garden and upland -- Dill -- Fennel -- Fenugreek -- Garlic -- Geraniums, scented -- Hop -- Horseradish -- Hyssop -- Hyssop, anise -- Juniper -- Lavender, English -- Lovage -- Marigold, pot -- Marjoram, sweet -- Mints -- Potpourri of mint-like herbs -- Calamint, large-flowered -- Calamint, lesser -- Korean mint -- Mexican mint marigold -- Mountain mint -- Mustard, brown and white -- Nasturtium and dwarf nasturtium -- Oregano -- Savory, winter -- Sorrel, garden and French -- Tarragon, French -- Thyme, garden -- Warm-season container herbs to overwinter indoors -- Bay laurel -- Ginger -- Lemon grass -- Lemon verbena -- Myrtle. |
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